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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Choose Happiness over Security!

Between being happy and being secure, choose being happy. Because security is fake and guarantees nothing except consoling you that you
are safe, despite the fact that you are not.

You are as safe as you are in this moment.
Your security transcends each moment. Because you will never be able to tell,
ever, what will happen to you, of you, in the next moment.

You, like many, will
be rushing to work at a job that you loathe, yet you cling
on to it because of a fake sense of security your pay check guarantees you. You
think you are secure if you have money, if you have a social standing, if you
have a well-heeled job and if you have a house to call your own.

Security comes
from the quantum of how much you possess. Happiness comes from being content
with whatever you possess.

The problem with seeking too much security is that
what you try to possess will eventually end up possessing you. If you have a
million dollars in the bank and have lost your job, invariably every thought of
yours will concern you depleting the bank balance with every delay that your
job search encounters. Clearly, the bank balance is possessing you now. On the
other hand, if you want to be happy, all you need to do is to consider yourself
lucky that you have a bank balance to live off this ignominious time while you
search for a job in this horrible economy. It is also really foolish on our
part that we should feel insecure. Because from the time you were born, you
have lived each moment without knowing what will happen in the next. Which
means you are an expert at dealing with the unknown, with insecurity.

Yet, you
fear it all the time?

We are experts at dealing with the unknown!

Life is a bungee jump into the unknown in each new
moment. And all of us have been doing it effectively, efficiently all these
years of our lives. So, a sense of security is a wasted sentiment. You don’t
need it to live. You can live with insecurity, as you always have been living. Happiness
however is crucial to live Life fully! If you have felt an emptiness, an
incompleteness in you, it is not because you are insecure, but because you are
not happy!

Happiness is an opportunity that each moment is pregnant with. To be
happy, you have to make a choice of letting go of the need to be secure. You
will then be blessed with happiness!